February 7, 2018
Refugees from 11 "high risk" countries whom the Trump administration tried to bar from the United States will once again be allowed to enter—if they clear a new, additional set of background checks, a senior administration official said Jan. 29. That puts an end to the “travel ban” that the...

February 7, 2018
FROM NEXTGOV
Did the Defense Information Systems Agency, or DISA, hide two of the largest computer flaws in history from the rest of the U.S. government? Or did they fudge how badly the vulnerabilities caught them by surprise? On Jan. 2, the world learned that many CPUs manufactured by Intel expose supposedly-protected...

February 6, 2018
The Marines now are giving small, unmanned quadcopters to every squad so they can practice and drill with drones and robots. The drones will play a role in everything from beach assaults to training. “They’re going fast. We’re talking about [sending] two hundred a month,” said Lt. Gen. Robert Walsh,...

February 6, 2018
Did the Defense Information Systems Agency, or DISA, hide two of the largest computer flaws in history from the rest of the U.S. government? Or did they fudge how badly the vulnerabilities caught them by surprise? On Jan. 2, the world learned that many CPUs manufactured by Intel expose supposedly-protected...

February 5, 2018
FROM NEXTGOV
The idea that the U.S. is building new low-yield nuclear weapons to respond to a cyberattack is “not true,” military leaders told reporters in the runup to the Friday release of the new Nuclear Posture Review. “The people who say we lowered the threshold for the use of nuclear weapons...

February 2, 2018
The idea that the U.S. is building new low-yield nuclear weapons to respond to a cyber attack is “not true,” military leaders told reporters in the runup to the Friday release of the new Nuclear Posture Review. “The people who say we lowered the threshold for the use of nuclear...

February 1, 2018
FROM NEXTGOV
The Pentagon has long wrapped Diego Garcia in a veil of secrecy, barring media from the Indian Ocean island even as its base and airfield became a key node in America’s wars in the Middle East. But a hole appeared in the veil last Saturday, when a mobile fitness-tracking app...

January 31, 2018
The Pentagon has long wrapped Diego Garcia in a veil of secrecy, barring media from the Indian Ocean island even as its base and airfield became a key node in America’s wars in the Middle East. But a hole appeared in the veil last Saturday, when a mobile fitness-tracking app...

January 30, 2018
Refugees from 11 "high risk" countries whom the Trump administration tried to bar from the United States will once again be allowed to enter — if they clear a new, additional set of background checks, a senior administration official said Monday. That puts an end to the “travel ban” that...

January 26, 2018
Chelsea Manning, Democratic U.S. Senate candidate for Maryland, Wikileaks contributor, and felon, registered a campaign web address that connects to a computer in Iceland. One potential explanation: putting data on a server overseas can help you hide it from authorities. When Manning’s campaign committee registered with the Federal Election Commission...